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CHARLES LEHMANN AND EDW'ARD BRUNIIOFF, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,252, datedSeptember 29, 1891. Application iiled January 9, 1891. Serial No.377,245. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom, it may cou/cern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES LEHMANN, a subject of the Emperor ofGermany, and EDWARD BRUNHOEF, a citizen of the United States, residingat Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in File-Racks, which is fully setforth in the following specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of afile-rack composed of two or more sections embodying our invention. Fig.2 is a perspective View of one of the sections of the le-rack detachedwith the boxes removed. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of a iile-rackcomposed of two or more sections taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. l.

Our invention relates to the construction of detachable file-racks orreceptacles for receiving and holding boxes containing drugi gistsprescriptions or other papers; and our invention consists inconstructing said iilerack in detachable sections, so that the lerackmay be built up or reduced by adding such detachable sections thereto ortaking them away, as may be desired; and our invention also consists inconstructing such detachable sections in such manner that they can bereadily and securely placed together in said file-rack so as to form thesame, or they can be removed therefrom, as may be desired; and ourinvention also consists in various other improvements in such sections,as hereinafter more particularly described.

A are detachable or removable sections, preferably made of sheet metal.Each of these sections is composed of upper and lower parts, Brepresentingvthe upper part and C the lower. Each of these parts ispreferably cnt or stamped out of one piece of sheet metal, as shown inthe drawings, having front and rear strips ot and b, with cross stripsc, forming the frame of the parts B and C; or they may be made ofseparate pieces, constituting the front and rear strips, connectedtogether by cross-pieces; but a more convenient wav is to stamp each oneof them out of one piece of sheet metal. These upper and lower parts areconnected by standards E, preferably of sheet metal, the standards atthe rear corners forming a square corner and the other standards beingstraight pieces of sheet-iron, all of said standards being soldered tothe upper and lower parts for the purpose of rigidly securing themtogether. At the rear and two ends of each of these parts of the sectionthe pieces of sheet metal are turned up, forming a ange e, and the frontstrip of the lower part of the section lies iiat, the upper one beingturned over and forming a lip d for the insertion of the lower frontstrip of the section immediately above. These detachable sections areexactly alike in their construction, and when it is desired to placethem together' the front lower strip is inserted in the lower lip d, andafterward the remainder of the section is let down within the flanges onthe other three sides, thus securely fastening the upper section withinthe lower section; or the two are fastened together. By constructingthese sections in this manner We are enabled to form a series ofsections, more or less, as may be desired, which may be rapidly andsecurely fastened together in the manner above described, or may bereadily detached one from the other, and into which may be placed theboxes D, which are usually of paper and constructed in any form desired.These sections may be of any size desired, and may consist of anynumber.

I-Iavin g thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a file-rack, the detachable section A, composed of upper and lowerparts B and C, having strips d and h, flanges e, lip d', and standardsE, substantially as shown and described.

2. A iile-rack composed of `detachable sections A, so constructed andadapted to each other that said ileerack may be built up by adding suchdetachable sections thereto, or may be reduced by taking such sectionstherefrom, substantially as shown and described.

8. In a file-rack, the detachable section A, in combination with theboxes D, all constructed and arranged substantially as shown anddescribed.

CHARLES LEHMANN. EDVARD BRUNHOFF. VVit-nesses:

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